With GMO, it should be judged on a case by case basis. Putting new proteins to confer pest resistance into a non-food crop like cotton has less potential ramifications than adding one to food crops, which is not intrinsically unsound, but requiring more careful testing. As well, some trends are definitely disturbing. There are serious ecological ramifications to making, via GM techniques, food crops resistant to a proprietary herbicide, then spraying the shit out of every crop...

JimC wrote:With GMO, it should be judged on a case by case basis. Putting new proteins to confer pest resistance into a non-food crop like cotton has less potential ramifications than adding one to food crops, which is not intrinsically unsound, but requiring more careful testing. As well, some trends are definitely disturbing. There are serious ecological ramifications to making, via GM techniques, food crops resistant to a proprietary herbicide, then spraying the shit out of every crop...